ScoobySounds Posted August 7, 2008 Author Posted August 7, 2008 Scoobysounds,How did you remove the old badge? I don't want to break anything. And how did you attach the new one? Going to get a new blue one from scoobyparts. A nice tough me thinks. hi mate, The instructions said you have to clean the area with alcohol cleaner, then heat up the area and the badge with a hairdryer (so that it curves to the domed surface) and press firmly. However, with the manufacturers stickiness it just fell off after a day, so I just used some toupee tape without heating and its sticking awesomely. I use it for sticking microphones to people at work all the time - its super sticky double sided tape and you can get it on eBay, or john lewis. taking the old one off is very easy, just lever it off with a flathead and it comes off fine! cheers, Chris.
stubaroo Posted August 7, 2008 Posted August 7, 2008 hi mate, The instructions said you have to clean the area with alcohol cleaner, then heat up the area and the badge with a hairdryer (so that it curves to the domed surface) and press firmly. However, with the manufacturers stickiness it just fell off after a day, so I just used some toupee tape without heating and its sticking awesomely. I use it for sticking microphones to people at work all the time - its super sticky double sided tape and you can get it on eBay, or john lewis. taking the old one off is very easy, just lever it off with a flathead and it comes off fine! cheers, Chris. Thanks Chris.
jim dbm Posted August 7, 2008 Posted August 7, 2008 hi mate saw ur car in scotmid carpark today in leith, i let u out from your space i was in the vw polo, my runabout far too wet to take my sti out and get all dirty. nice car btw.
ScoobySounds Posted August 7, 2008 Author Posted August 7, 2008 hooray! my first confirmed sighting!! yeah the silver polo, right? nice one, and thank you! I find the handling pretty superb in the wet on my nearly dead eagle-f1's. definately never touch snow, but she still feels really stuck onto the road in the rain, so I still use it!
jim dbm Posted August 7, 2008 Posted August 7, 2008 yeah mate that was me, had the window down to hear u, sounded sweet. what model is it exactly? noticed the larger v5 rear spoiler
ScoobySounds Posted August 7, 2008 Author Posted August 7, 2008 yeah mate that was me, had the window down to hear u, sounded sweet. what model is it exactly? noticed the larger v5 rear spoiler good question.. I've been trying to figure this out for a while.. ; I know it started life as a 99wrx, but the car was factory fitted with all sorts of extras, amongst them STI bits like aluminium panels and sti suspension and the redline is at 7500rpm, which must mean something was also done to the engine. Certainly is a very responsive drive, i really love it, whatever it is!!
superstar_tradesman Posted August 7, 2008 Posted August 7, 2008 good question.. I've been trying to figure this out for a while.. ; I know it started life as a 99wrx, but the car was factory fitted with all sorts of extras, amongst them STI bits like aluminium panels and sti suspension and the redline is at 7500rpm, which must mean something was also done to the engine. Certainly is a very responsive drive, i really love it, whatever it is!! wrx redline is 7500 rpm, sti is 8250 iirc.
ScoobySounds Posted August 8, 2008 Author Posted August 8, 2008 redline is 7k on wrx's i thought.... whatever it is when I was getting it mapped andy said he usually tweaks his maps to make one fit but for this he had to do one pretty well from scratch, nothing he already had was close. I haven't driven many other scoobs, but people who drive this who have, tend to be quite impressed.. which is nice. as you may've noticed i'm not fully geeked up on the details, I pay the experts to take care of it and keep it healthy, all I care about is that it drives great and puts a silly grin all over my face. .. like this one -->
jim dbm Posted August 8, 2008 Posted August 8, 2008 did u get the apexi fc and commander on your car?? how did it compare after the map to before? what bhp did andy reckon its running.
ScoobySounds Posted August 8, 2008 Author Posted August 8, 2008 (edited) did u get the apexi fc and commander on your car?? how did it compare after the map to before? what bhp did andy reckon its running. no it was ecutek - it ran at around 310 bhp on a hot day. Well, before I got the map I also had a cat - so my only experience is that removing cat + map gave a much smoother boost, rather than it coming in waves. I didn't do a rolling road with it pre map but the guy I bought it off it said about 290 or so. so what exactly does that apexi contraption do? Cos I reckon there would just be a lot of important numbers I could fiddle with and ruin everything. Edited August 8, 2008 by ScoobySounds
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